The Arizona sentinel., 1887-01-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


 --Hydrophobia is unknown in Lap land, but Pasteur has just shown that dogs may be inoculated with the dis ease.
 M. Galignani's alms-house for broken-down men of letters is nearly finished at Neuilly, at cost of several million francs
 It is estimated that at least 25,000,- 900 false teeth are manufactured annu- ally. Of this amount London alone manufactures 10,O0O,OO0.
 A daughter of Richard Golden was chosen to unveil a statue of her distinguished father, which has just been erected at Manchester, Eng.
 M Pasteur, being urged by his family to rest for time from his la bors, replied: ''When am not work ing I seem to myself to be committing a theft.
 Marcus Jordan, of Bielefeld, Rhen- ish Prussia, is the oldest man in Ger many. He has completed his 107th year in sound health. and reads the grabbed German letters without specta- cles.
 The Raphael La Verge au Sein, which was discovered about year ago in dealers shop at Lausanne by Prof. Nieolie, who bought it for fS, has been sold at Geneva to French collector for 9S,OO0.
 Princess Louise has particular charm of manner in dealing with young children, who meet her over lures with the instinctive confidence of little ones who know they have found friend.
 One of the largest bird shows of tie season is a great bird-cage show in Lond62, in which the total number ot birds exhibited is more than 200. The crested canary iSrms the chief feature of the canary exhibit.
 Previous to 1879, when the city ob- tained its water from the Danube river, typhoid fever was almost epidemic in Vienna In that year they put up new water works, and since that time not one case has developed.
 M Paul de Cassagnac can fight or not as he pleases. An offended fellow editor recently telegraphed to him: '1 shall have the honor to send you my seconds tomorrow, and the fire-eater coolly replied: "You need not send them, for shall not receive them"
 Several Russian engineers were re- gently tried on a charge of having de- frauded the Government. Among those who were found guilty was the chief of the department, Colonel Bernard. When he was put into the prison suit and his decorations were removed from his breast, he was struck with apopleXy and died on the spot.
 -"Grape cure" is practised in France and Germany in the Autumn, and is re- garded as a cure for many diseases due to high feeding. The patient is given a pound of grapes to eat the first day. This amount is added to until the per eOll Cdl Ctb nNC OA clA pOuANio |" NebD . i The other food is gradually lessened, and the diet at last consists entirely of grapes. It cures obesity and many other complaints, and starts the person off on a new lease of life. Fruit is necessary in a rational diet, and of im- mense value in dietetic medicine. It is said that whenever an eruption of the Bromo Volcano, Japan, takes place, the natives, as soon as the fire (the molten lava no doubt it meant) comes down the mountain, kindle at it the wood they use as fuel for cooking. They keep in the fire thus made for years, and whenever it goes out, through neglect or for any otherre reason, they never kindle it new from matches, but they get light from their nearest neighbors, whose fire was originally obtained from the volcano. The fires in use, up to the latest outbursts, in the native cooking places were all obtained from the Bromo eruption of 1882.